Today we will discuss diets that don't work and the next one I want to talk about is the ketone
diet or as it's known sometimes the ketogenic diet now ketones our substances are broken down from fat actually
it happens while you're asleep and it happens during fasting it's part of the adaptation to fasting these things are
soluble in your bloodstream so they can carry energy around your body unlike fats which are not soluble and
have to be carried on proteins so these ketones go up about 300 fold over the
first six weeks or so of starvation and they each even come out in your breath and create a fruity smell to your breath
However, they have little effect on appetite the original theory was that they would reduce hunger actually that
is not true now the other part of this is there are sticks that you can put in your urine which will turn blue when
your ketones are high now in order to keep your ketones high you have to eat
less than 100 grams of carbohydrate per day which means that these diets are
only 5% carbohydrate and about 75% fat with little amounts of protein maybe 10 to 20 percent so you're going to eat a
lot of bacon you're gonna eat a lot of the meat you're getting butter and you're
going to eat oils no effect on weight whatsoever there have been some interesting studies on epilepsy and
other brain disorders however for weight loss this diet doesn't work